32-412: Adult album alternative (also triple-A , AAA , or adult alternative ) is a radio format . Its roots trace to both the " classic album stations of the ’70s as well as the alternative rock format that developed in the ’80s." The format is typically heard on non-commercial educational stations . The format has a broader, more diverse playlist than most other formats. Musical selection tends to be on
64-770: A convention and music festival , each autumn, in New York. A second festival, the CMJ Rock Hall Music Fest, took place in Cleveland in 2005 and 2006; in April 2007, organizers canceled the event, citing strains on financial and staffing resources. CMJ Music Marathon organized the New Music Awards. CMJ New Music Monthly was a monthly music magazine with interviews, reviews, and special features published from 1993 to 2009. Each issue included
96-1226: A "test market" for emerging artists. The format has gone off and on in the Los Angeles radio market. Currently KCSN and simulcast partner KSBR broadcast a Triple A format in the Los Angeles and Orange Country areas respectively. The format still exists in New York City ( WFUV ); Chicago ( WXRT ); Philadelphia ( WXPN ); Minneapolis ( KCMP ); Boston ( WXRV , WERS , and Americana leaning WUMB-FM ); Baltimore (WTMD); Aspen, Colorado ( KSPN-FM ); Boise, Idaho ( KRVB ); Denver ( KBCO and KVOQ ); Fort Collins ( KJAC ); Pittsburgh ( WYEP ); Astoria ( KBGE ); Bend ( KLRR ); Eugene ( KRVM ); Portland, Oregon ( KINK ); Portland, Maine ( WCLZ ); Indianapolis ( WTTS ); Nashville ( WRLT , WNXP , and Americana leaning WMOT ); Conway, New Hampshire ( WMWV ); Burlington, Vermont ( WNCS ); Seattle, Washington; ( KMIH ); Spokane ( KPND ); Turners Falls-Northampton, Massachusetts ( WRSI ); Bozeman, Montana ( KMMS-FM ); Missoula, Montana ( KDTR ); Woodstock, New York ( WDST ); Austin ( KGSR-HD2 , KUTX , and KTSN ); Columbia, Missouri ( KBXR ); and Dallas ( KKXT ). The now-defunct KFOG
128-473: A cost of a few hundred dollars a year. The magazine moved to an online only format and was released weekly as a digital PDF magazine until it folded in 2017. On January 5, 2004, CMJ New Music Report published a 25th anniversary double issue led by an editorial staff that included editor-in-chief Kevin Kerry Boyce, and managing editors Louis Miller and Doug Levy. The issue featured The White Stripes on
160-530: A half later, the magazine was able to create the first annual CMJ Music Marathon, which was named after the New York City Marathon , which was held at around the same time of year. About 100 people attended, and there were no showcases. In 1982, the magazine officially rebranded as CMJ New Music Report . CMJ continued to grow, and by the 1990s, Haber and the CMJ staff wanted to stay connected to
192-449: A particular holiday and thus, with the notable exception of Christmas music (which is usually played throughout Advent ), stations going to a holiday-themed format usually only do so for a short time, typically a day or a weekend. The UK has several formats that often overlap with one another. The American terms for formats are not always used to describe British stations or fully set specified by RAJAR . CMJ CMJ Holdings Corp.
224-514: A reference for commercial radio programming worldwide. A radio format aims to reach a more or less specific audience according to a certain type of programming, which can be thematic or general, more informative or more musical, among other possibilities. Radio formats are often used as a marketing tool and are subject to frequent changes, including temporary changes called " stunting ." Except for talk radio or sports radio formats, most programming formats are based on commercial music. However
256-407: A station of changing its format, for example arguing in court over whether a particular song or group of songs is "pop" or "rock". Formats constantly evolve and each format can often be sub-divided into many specialty formats. Some of the following formats are available only regionally or through specialized venues such as satellite radio or Internet radio . Seasonal formats typically celebrate
288-654: Is a music events, online media company and a distributor of up and coming music CDs, originally founded in 1978, which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City , and published two magazines, CMJ New Music Monthly and CMJ New Music Report . The company folded around 2017, but was bought by Amazing Radio in 2019 who announced plans to bring back the CMJ Music Marathon in New York, along with other new live and live-streamed offerings. The letters CMJ originally stood for College Media Journal but
320-506: Is not affiliated with the network —began to emerge in the United States and Canada. They developed a format with programming consisting of music, news, and charismatic disc jockeys to directly attract a certain audience. For example, by the 1960s, easy listening obtained a stable position on FM radio – a spectrum considered ideal for good music and high fidelity listening as it grew in popularity during that period – and
352-480: The middle of the road (MOR) rose as a radio industry term to discern radio stations that played mainstream pop songs from radio stations whose programming was geared towards teenagers and was dominated by rock and roll , the most popular musical genre of the period in the United States and which held the first successful radio format called Top-40 . In reality, the Top-40 format was conscientiously prepared to attract
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#1732797650128384-426: The 1970s and 1980s, radio programming formats expanded into commercially successful variations, including, for example, adult contemporary (AC), album-oriented rock (AOR) and urban contemporary (UC), among others, which spread to most AM and FM radio stations in the United States. Over time, FM radio came to dominate music programming, while AM radio switched to news and talk formats. In some countries such as
416-476: The AM and FM spectrum to differentiate themselves for both audiences and advertisers. At that time, it caused a proliferation of many radio formats, which included presentation, schedule and target audience, as well as repertoire. Within a few years, FM radio stations were supplying program formats completely analogous to their AM stations counterparts, increased to more than 50% in 1970 and reached 95% in 1980. During
448-586: The UK, licences to broadcast on radio frequencies are regulated by the government, and may take account of social and cultural factors including format type, local content, and language, as well as the price available to pay for the spectrum use. This may be done to ensure a balance of available public content in each area, and in particular to enable non-profit local community radio to exist alongside larger and richer national companies. On occasions format regulation may lead to difficult legal challenges when government accuses
480-557: The closing of Radio & Records in 2009. At the end of 2019, FMQB closed and all Triple A services were absorbed by Jack Barton Entertainment, LLC (JBE), helmed by Jack Barton, former VP/Triple A at FMQB. JBE has rebranded the Boulder convention as the Triple A SummitFest and continues to publish weekly Triple A charts, including a Non-Commercial album chart, as well as a weekly newsletter (JBE Triple A Report) covering Triple A radio and
512-411: The college radio scene, but felt unable or unwilling to pay the high price for a subscription to a trade publication. To fill the need, CMJ created CMJ New Music Monthly in 1993. This consumer publication featured interviews, reviews, and special features. It was also the first magazine to regularly include a CD of music. It was available on newsstands and via subscription. The company got caught up in
544-404: The country by the late 1940s . American television had more financial resources to produce generalist programs that provoked the migration of countless talents from radio networks to the new medium. Under this context, the radio was pressured to seek alternatives to maintain its audience and cultural relevance. As a consequence, AM radios stations—many of which were "independent", that
576-473: The cover in a photograph captured by art director Drew Goren; the magazine named the band's 2003 release, Elephant , its Album of the Year. Many musicians from the New York City indie rock community have worked on staff at CMJ over the years, including members of acts such as Parts and Labor , Poingly , Worriers , and The Airborne Toxic Event . From 1980 through 2015, staff organized the CMJ Music Marathon,
608-527: The enhanced and larger playlist. Some AAA outlets focus more on classic rock artists, folk and blues while others focus on more contemporary artists and modern/indie rock. Some of the songs that first air on the Triple-A format have later found additional popularity on the Adult Top 40 , modern rock , or adult contemporary charts months after their initial Triple-A chart runs. The format is often seen as
640-412: The fringe of mainstream pop and rock . It also includes many other music genres such as indie rock , Americana , pop rock , classic rock , alternative rock , new wave , alternative country , jazz , folk , world music , jam band and blues . The musical selections tend to avoid hard rock and rap music. Music selection also includes tracks from albums that are not singles , which leads to
672-788: The internet bubble in the late 90s when Rare Medium Group purchased CMJ in November 1999. Rare owned interest in iFace, ePrize, LiveUniverse, and the ChangeMusic Network (the latter of which, CMJ would become a subsidiary). Rare moved CMJ out of Great Neck and into a new office in New York, NY . The internet conglomerate fizzled by 2001, and Haber purchased the debt-saddled CMJ back from Rare. The shift back to being an independent company proved to be difficult. New Music Monthly saw several issues be "subscriber only" and unavailable on newsstands. That year's Music Marathon in New York City
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#1732797650128704-543: The magazine and for its premium members on its website. Mediabase also publishes Triple A charts on a daily basis. Additional Triple-A charts are published by CMJ and FMQB . FMQB also produces the annual Triple A Conference in Boulder, Colorado , USA, an event that grew out of the Gavin Report's Triple A Summit, first held in 1993. FMQB took over production of the event, rebranding it as the Triple A Conference, after
736-504: The magazines were faltering, CMJ entered into an agreement with Metropolitan Talent for a proposed merger. This resulted in Metropolitan giving CMJ $ 600,000 in "stay alive money," but ended in a lawsuit when the deal fell apart and CMJ was instead sold to Adam Klein (former CEO of eMusic ) and Abaculi Media instead in 2014. In a move described as "devastating," founder Bobby Haber was let go by Abaculi shortly thereafter. By 2016, CMJ
768-418: The music it plays. Radio format A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming ) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station . The radio format emerged mainly in the United States in the 1950s, at a time when radio was compelled to develop new and exclusive ways to programming by competition with television . The formula has since spread as
800-499: The publication. By 2004, New Music Monthly was off newsstand completely and issues were often sent out sporadically, which made it hard to attract new subscribers. New Music Report went from being a weekly publication to only being sent out every other week (the published charts were available only online for the off-weeks). Though the final issues were sent out in 2008, New Music Monthly officially stopped publishing on June 20, 2009. New Music Report would soon follow. While
832-482: The term also includes the news, bulletins, DJ talk, jingles, commercials, competitions, traffic news, sports, weather and community announcements between the tracks. Even before World War II , radio stations in North America and Europe almost always adopted a generalist radio format. However, the United States witnessed the growing strengthening of television over the radio as the major mass media in
864-682: The young audience, who was the main consumer of the records sold by the American record industry at that time. Soon, playlists became central to programming and radio formats, although the number of records in a playlist really depends on the format. By the mid-1960s, American FM radio's penetration began achieving balance with AM radio since the Federal Communications Commission required that co-owned AM and FM stations be programmed independently from each other. This resulted in huge competition between radio stations in
896-561: Was a legendary Triple A station in the San Francisco Bay Area . On July 10, 2008 Billboard began a Triple-A chart (using information from sister-publication Radio and Records , a news magazine devoted to the radio and the music industries that has since ceased publication). Rival Mediabase 24/7 also compiles a Triple A chart. As of mid-2009, Radio and Records publications and accompanying charts were discontinued. As of 2010, Billboard publishes Triple A charts in
928-655: Was accused of manipulating their charts in order to push their own compilation into the Top 200; however, CMJ claimed it was an accident and the compilation was only used as a placeholder. This resulted in CMJ changing the name of their New Music Report compilation from Certain Damage to On Air . In addition, the magazine was criticized at the time by many in the independent music community for focusing too much on major label acts, which resulted in Beggars Group pulling ads from
960-554: Was also often considered short for College Music Journal . The company was started by Robert Haber in 1978 as the College Media Journal , a bi-weekly trade magazine aimed at college radio programmers in Great Neck, NY . The first issue was published on March 1, 1979, and featured Elvis Costello on the cover. Staff would often describe these early issues as "a bunch of photocopies stapled together." A year and
992-455: Was intended to be a comeback for the now independent media company with hundred of bands, many panelists, and thousands of attendees scheduled to attend between September 13–16 with an ill-picked tagline in hindsight of "A Killer Event." The events of September 11, 2001, led to the event's cancelation. A scaled-back version of the Marathon took place a month later. Minor scandals followed. CMJ
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1024-591: Was no longer putting on the annual Music Marathon, and staff stopped getting paid in October 2015, which eventually lead to a lawsuit and Klein's bankruptcy. In 2019, Amazing Radio purchased the CMJ brand with the hope of reviving the Music Marathon. Offerings of various artists were placed online with at home performances due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. CMJ New Music Report published top-30 lists sent to them by radio stations, which subscribed at
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